Analysis device, analysis method, and analysis program

ABSTRACT

A program analysis unit of a browser emulator manager exhaustively searches a code by performing syntax analysis of a code included in web content to search a transfer code to another site or a content acquisition code, and specifies at least any of an object and a function and a property of the object used in the code found as a result of the search. Further, the program analysis unit extracts a code having a dependence relationship with the transfer code or the content acquisition code based on at least any of the object and the function and the property of the object thus specified.

FIELD

The present invention relates to an analysis device, an analysis method,and an analysis program.

BACKGROUND

Conventionally, methods of detecting a malicious code by executing themalicious code using an emulator of a browser (hereinafter, referred toas a browser emulator) and analyzing an execution result thereof againsta cyber attack such as a drive-by download attack have been known (forexample, see Non Patent Literature 1, Non Patent Literature 2).

This drive-by download attack causes a client to pass a plurality ofwebsites (hereinafter, referred to as a stepping-stone URL (UniformResource Locator) and then, be transferred to a malicious website(hereinafter, referred to as an attack URL) that executes an attack codeusing a code such as JavaScript (registered trademark). When the clientaccesses the attack URL, the attack code that exploits vulnerabilitiesof a browser or a plug-in of the browser (hereinafter, referred to asthe plug-in) is executed, and the client is forced to download andinstall a malicious program such as a computer virus.

The browser emulator detects the malicious code by monitoring executionof codes included in a website in the unit of functions and detectingunauthorized use of functions of the browser or the plug-in havingvulnerabilities. The malicious code exploits the vulnerabilities of thefunctions prepared in the browser or the plug-in and causes bufferoverflow that rewrites a memory area of a computer in an unauthorizedmanner or a heap spray that operates a memory allocation method in anunauthorized manner by inputting a long character string or a largenumeric value, thereby executing the attack code. Thus, the browseremulator detects the malicious code by monitoring use of the vulnerableplug-in or input of a character string and input of a numeric value intoa function according to the code.

For example, the browser emulator prepares an attack code with respectto a function of a vulnerable component of ActiveX (registeredtrademark) focusing on ActiveX (registered trademark), which is aplug-in of Internet Explorer (registered trademark) in advance as asignature, and determines a website as a malicious website when anexecuted code thereof matches the signature (see Non Patent Literature1).

In addition, the browser emulator collects a function (for example,substring( )) to operate a character string of JavaScript (registeredtrademark), the number of times of execution of a function (for example,eval( )) to dynamically generate a code, and argument information usedin the functions, and a detection technique using machine learning basedon the collected information has been also devised (see Non PatentLiterature 2).

Meanwhile, the malicious code exploits vulnerabilities of wide range ofapplications (examples of the browser include Internet Explorer(registered trademark), Firefox (registered trademark), Opera(registered trademark) and the like and examples of the plug-in includeAdobe Acrobat (registered trademark), Adobe Flash Player (registeredtrademark), Oracle JRE (registered trademark) and the like). Types ofvulnerabilities to be exploited are subdivided for each type of an OS(Operating System), the browser and the plug-in, and each version(hereinafter, referred to as client environment) thereof and arediverse.

In addition, it is possible to acquire client environment information inJavaScript (registered trademark) using browser fingerprinting thatidentifies client environment that has accessed a website.

In the stepping-stone URL in the drive-by download attack, the clientenvironment information is acquired using this browser fingerprinting,and a code (hereinafter, referred to as a transfer code) that causesonly a client having client environment as an attack target to betransferred to the attack URL, an HTML (HyperText Markup Language) taginput code (hereinafter, referred to as a content acquisition code) thatacquires content including the attack code are executed by a controlstatement based on the client environment information (hereinafter,referred to as an environment-dependent attack) (see Non PatentLiterature 3). Therefore, the technique of detecting the malicious codedoes not effectively function in the above-described related art sinceit is difficult to reach the attack URL when the client environment setin the browser emulator is different from the client environment as theattack target.

Meanwhile, a technique of exhaustively analyzing a code using atechnique such as an abstract syntax tree and program slicing andextracting a URL embedded in JavaScript (registered trademark) (see NonPatent Literature 4). The abstract syntax tree (AST) is a data structurethat represents a program structure using an abstract tree structure. Itis possible to exhaustively analyze the program by exploring theabstract syntax tree. That is, it is possible to analyze a code withoutdepending on the program structure, and thus, it is possible tostatically analyze even a code that is not likely to be executed by thecontrol statement of JavaScript (registered trademark).

In addition, the program slicing is a technique of extracting some setsof statements relating to a variable v that is focused in an arbitrarystatement s in a program, called a slicing criteria <s,v> (see NonPatent Literature 5). The set of statements extracted according to theslicing criteria is called a slice. As techniques of extracting such aslice, a program slicing technique based on a data flow or a programslicing technique based on a dependency graph have been known.

In Non Patent Literature 4, a code that results in use of a URL isspecified using the abstract syntax tree of the entire JavaScript(registered trademark) acquired at the time of accessing a website.Thereafter, the execution of a code is performed by a JavaScript(registered trademark) interpreter after removing a URL-irrelevant codeusing the program slicing. However, the technique is implemented by itsown JavaScript (registered trademark) interpreter, and does not copewith a code that refers to plug-in information of a client. In addition,the technique aims to improve coverage of a search engine, and thus,also extracts a URL used for a tag, a form tag or the like which is lesslikely to be used as the attack URL.

CITATION LIST Non Patent Literature

Non Patent Literature 1: Jose Nazario, “PhoneyC: A Virtual ClientHoneypot”, In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploitsand Emergent Threats (LEET), April 2009, [searched in Sep. 2, 2014],Internet <URL:https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/leet09/tech/full_papers/nazario/nazario.pdf>

Non Patent Literature 2: Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, GiovanniVigna, “Detection and Analysis of Drive-by-Download Attacks andMalicious JavaScript Code”, In Proceedings of the World Wide WebConference (WWW), April 2010, [searched in Sep. 2, 2014], Internet<URL:http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/˜vigna/publications/2010_cova_kruegel_vigna_Wepawet.pdf>

Non Patent Literature 3: Yuta Takata, Mitsuaki Akiyama, Takeo Hariu, “AnInvestigation of Malicious JavaScript Code used in Drive-by Download”,The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers,Information and Communication System Security, March 2014, [searched inSep. 2, 2014], Internet<URL:http://www.ieice.org/ken/paper/20140327QBlZ/>

Non Patent Literature 4: Qi Wang, Jingyu Zhou, Yizhou Zhang, JianjunZhao, “Extracting URLs from JavaScript via Program Analysis”, InProceedings of the 9th joint meeting of the European SoftwareEngineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundationsof Software Engineering, August 2013, [searched in Sep. 2, 2014],Internet<URL:http://stap.sjtu.edu.cn/images/2/2e/ExtractingAnalysis.pdf>

Non Patent Literature 5: Mark Weiser, “PROGRAM SLICING”, In Proceedingsof the 5th International Conference on Software Engineering, 1981,[searched in Sep. 2, 2014], Internet<URL:http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=802557>

SUMMARY Technical Problem

The related art does not consider the transfer code and the contentacquisition code which depend on the control statement of the code, andthus, has a problem that the transfer to the stepping-stone URL or theattack URL does not occur depending on the control statement of the codethat performs the drive-by download attack, for example. As a result,there is a risk that the technique of detecting the malicious code doesnot effectively function and it is difficult to detect the maliciouscode.

For example, when version information of JRE (registered trademark) isacquired using the browser fingerprinting in a certain stepping-stoneURL and a JavaScript (registered trademark) code added with control toexecute the transfer code to the attack URL is used only for a JRE(registered trademark) version 7, it is difficult to execute thetransfer code in client environment where JRE (registered trademark) isnot installed and client environment where JRE (registered trademark)other than the JRE (registered trademark) version 7 is installed. As aresult, the access from the client is not transferred to thestepping-stone URL or the attack URL, and thus, the technique ofdetecting the malicious code does not effectively function and it isdifficult to detect the malicious code.

Thus, the present invention aims to solve the above-described problemsand to analyze a code that performs a drive-by download attack dependingon client environment.

Solution to Problem

To solve the above-described problems, the present invention is ananalysis device that analyzes a code included in web content, the devicecomprising: a syntax analysis unit that searches a transfer code toanother site or a content acquisition code from the code by performingsyntax analysis of the code included in the web content and specifies atleast any of an object and a function and a property of the object whichare used in the transfer code or the content acquisition code found as aresult of the search; and a program slicing unit which extracts a codehaving a dependence relationship with the transfer code or the contentacquisition code based on at least any of the object and the functionand the property of the object thus specified.

Advantageous Effects of Invention

According to the present invention, it is possible to analyze the codethat performs the drive-by download attack depending on the clientenvironment. As a result, it is possible to extract a URL which ishighly likely to be used as an attack URL and a stepping-stone URL inthe drive-by download attack from the code, for example.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a system.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a browseremulator manager.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a code as an analysistarget of a program analysis unit.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating examples of a transfer code and acontent acquisition code.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of an abstract syntax tree.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a program dependencegraph.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a slice.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of analysis information tobe registered in a analysis information database.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedureof a system.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedureof code analysis of FIG. 9.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the processingprocedure of the code analysis of FIG. 9.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a system.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a browseremulator manager.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a code as an analysistarget of a program analysis unit.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating examples of a script transfer code, atag transfer code, and a pair of an HTML tag used in the code and anattribute name thereof.

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an example of a program dependencegraph.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of a node which becomes anextraction target based on a slicing criteria <14,location.href>.

FIG. 18 is a diagram for describing a slice to be extracted based on theslicing criteria <14,location.href>.

FIG. 19 is a diagram for describing a slice to be extracted by anexecution path search unit.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an example of a node which becomes anextraction target based on a slicing criteria <5,if>.

FIG. 21 is a diagram for describing a slice to be extracted based on theslicing criteria <5,if>.

FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating an example of analysis information tobe stored in the analysis information database.

FIG. 23 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedureof a system.

FIG. 24 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedureof code analysis of FIG. 23.

FIG. 25 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the processingprocedure of the code analysis of FIG. 23.

FIG. 26 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the processingprocedure of the code analysis of FIG. 23.

FIG. 27 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedureof extraction of a slice in FIG. 25 and FIG. 26.

FIG. 28 is a diagram illustrating a computer to execute an analysisprogram.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

Hereinafter, modes for implementing the present invention (embodiments)will be described with reference to the drawings. The present inventionis not limited to the present embodiments.

[First Embodiment]

First, a configuration example of a system according to a firstembodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 1. The system isprovided with a network 1 and a network 2 as illustrated in FIG. 1, forexample. The network 1 and the network 2 are connected via a packettransfer device 3.

The network 1 is provided with an analysis target website 12. Thenetwork 1 may be a wide area network such as the Internet, a small andmedium-scale network such as a corporate network, or a network of groundenvironment or hosting environment.

The analysis target website 12 is a website serving as an analysistarget of a browser emulator manager (analysis device) 23. Examples ofthe analysis target website 12 may include a website posted in ablacklist of published malicious websites, and the like.

In addition, the network 2 is provided with the browser emulator manager23 and an analysis information database 24. The network 2 may be asmall-scale network such as a local area network, a small andmedium-scale network such as a corporate network, or a network of groundenvironment or hosting environment.

The browser emulator manager 23 manages one or more browser emulators 25and causes the browser emulator 25 to access a predetermined website(the analysis target website 12). Further, the browser emulator manager23 stores a URL of a website accessed by the browser emulator 25, and aURL or the like obtained by analyzing a code acquired from the websitein the analysis information database 24.

The browser emulator 25 is a device which emulates an operation of abrowser. For example, a browser emulator provided by Honeynet Project,HtmlUnit or Selenium which has been developed as an open source can beapplied as the browser emulator 25. Details of the browser emulator 25will be described later. Incidentally, the browser emulator 25 is drawnto be constructed inside the browser emulator manager 23 in FIG. 1, butmay be constructed outside the browser emulator manager 23, of course.

The URL of the website accessed by the browser emulator 25, and the URLor the like obtained by analyzing the code acquired from the website arestored (saved) in the analysis information database 24. The data may besaved in the analysis information database 24 using an RDBMS (RelationalDataBase Management System) or may be saved in a text format. Details ofthe analysis information database 24 will be described later.

Incidentally, the browser emulator 25, the browser emulator manager 23and the analysis information database 24 are arranged in the samenetwork in the present embodiment, but may be arranged in differentnetworks. In addition, the existing cryptographic technology may beapplied to encrypt communication information or the respective networksin which the respective devices are arranged or the respectiveconfigurations may be connected to each other via a VPN (Virtual PrivateNetwork) in order to securely connect the respective configurations.

Next, the browser emulator manager 23 and the browser emulator 25 willbe described in detail with reference to FIG. 2. The browser emulatormanager 23 is provided with the browser emulator 25 and a control unit27. The control unit 27 causes the browser emulator 25 to operate on ahost system 26. For example, an OS provided in the browser emulatormanager 23 is used as the host system 26. Details of the control unit 27will be described later.

(Browser Emulator)

Next, the browser emulator 25 will be described. The browser emulator 25is provided with a client environment emulation unit 251, an access unit252, an HTML/CSS (HyperText Markup Language/Cascading Style Sheets)parser 253, and a script interpreter 254.

The client environment emulation unit 251 sets information of clientenvironment (for example, an OS, a browser, a plug-in, and the like)that needs to be emulated by the browser emulator 25.

The access unit 252 performs communication with a website (for example,the analysis target website 12 in FIG. 1) using HTTP (HyperText TransferProtocol) or HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) and acquires webcontent from the website. Here, the access unit 252 uses the clientenvironment, set by the client environment emulation unit 251, as aUser-Agent field of an HTTP header during the communication using theHTTP or HTTPS. In this manner, the browser emulator 25 emulates theclient environment. For example, a cURL which has been developed as freesoftware is used as the access unit 252.

In addition, the access unit 252 records a result of the access to thewebsite in an access log. For example, the access unit 252 records a URLof the accessed website, date and time of the access in the access log.In addition, when transition to another website occurs as the result ofthe access to the website, the access unit 252 also records a URL of atransition destination or the like in the access log.

The HTML/CSS parser 253 interprets the web content acquired by theaccess unit 252. In addition, when a code is included in the web contentas a result of the interpretation of the web content, the HTML/CSSparser 253 interprets the code using the script interpreter 254.

The script interpreter 254 interprets the code included in the webcontent. For example, when the code is written using JavaScript(registered trademark), the script interpreter 254 interprets the codeusing SpiderMonkey developed as an open source, a JavaScript (registeredtrademark) interpreter such as V8 JavaScript (registered trademark)Engine, Rhino which is a JavaScript (registered trademark) interpreterwritten in Java (registered trademark), or the like.

(Control Unit)

Next, the control unit 27 will be described. The control unit 27 isprovided with a URL list creation unit 271, an access instruction unit272, a program analysis unit 273, a registration processing unit 278,and a URL analysis unit 279.

The URL list creation unit 271 creates a bypass target URL list which isa URL list of websites (the analysis target website 12) that therespective browser emulators 25 bypass. For example, the URL listcreation unit 271 creates the bypass target URL list based on URLs ofwebsites posted in the blacklist of published malicious websites.

The access instruction unit 272 instructs the access unit 252 of each ofthe browser emulators 25 to access a URL listed in the bypass target URLlist (URL list).

The program analysis unit 273 performs analysis of a program (code)included in web content acquired from a website as an accessdestination. Details of the program analysis unit 273 will be describedlater.

The registration processing unit 278 acquires each access log of thebrowser emulators 25 and registers the acquired access log in theanalysis information database 24. In addition, the registrationprocessing unit 278 registers a URL, obtained from the analysis(execution of a slice to be described later) of the code by the programanalysis unit 273 in the analysis information database 24.

The URL analysis unit 279 analyzes a URL (analysis information) obtainedfrom the access log stored in the analysis information database 24 orthe code analysis, and outputs a result of the analysis. For example,the URL analysis unit 279 extracts a URL which is likely to be an attackURL or a stepping-stone URL from the URL included in the access log andthe URL obtained by the code analysis and outputs the extracted URL.

Next, the program analysis unit 273 will be described in detail. Theprogram analysis unit 273 is provided with a syntax analysis unit 274, aprogram dependence graph construction unit 275, a program slicing unit(extraction unit) 276, and a slice execution unit 277.

The syntax analysis unit 274 performs syntax analysis of a code includedin web content acquired by the browser emulator 25. To be specific, thescript interpreter 254 of the browser emulator 25 performs the syntaxanalysis of a script in the course of interpreting the script of thecode included in the web content and searches a transfer code to anothersite or a content acquisition code from the code included in the webcontent. Further, the syntax analysis unit 274 specifies an object and afunction and a property of the object to be used in the transfer code orthe content acquisition code which has been found as a result of thesearch.

A specific example of the syntax analysis will be described. Here, acode as an analysis target is assumed to be a code written usingJavaScript (registered trademark) as illustrated in FIG. 3, for example.Incidentally, the code illustrated in FIG. 3 is a code that executes acontrol command based on version information of JRE and then, executesthe transfer code to execute transfer to another site or the contentacquisition code to acquire content from another site. In addition, thetransfer code and the content acquisition code serving as search targetsof the syntax analysis unit 274 are assumed to be codes represented byreference sign 401 and reference sign 402 in FIG. 4. Incidentally, thecontent acquisition code represented by reference sign 402 is a codethat acquires external content based on a URL to be assigned to apredetermined attribute name in a predetermined HTML tag. A pair of theHTML tag used in the content acquisition code and the attribute namethat designates the URL of the external content is assumed to be a pairof an HTML tag and an attribute name represented by reference sign 403,for example. The information (search target code information) relatingto these codes is stored in a predetermined area of a storage unit (notillustrated) of the browser emulator manager 23 and an administrator orthe like thereof can be appropriately set.

For example, the syntax analysis unit 274 converts a control statementsection of the code in FIG. 3 (from the fifth to twelfth lines in FIG.3) into an abstract syntax tree illustrated in FIG. 5 using an abstractsyntax tree analysis function of a JavaScript (registered trademark)code loaded in the Rhino. A description will be given regarding a labeldescribed in each node (hereinafter, referred to as an AST node) in theabstract syntax tree.

If Statement means an if statement in JavaScript (registered trademark)and means a conditional statement, a THEN statement, and an ELSEstatement from the left of a child AST node. Scope indicates a range ({}) of a scope in the code, and ExpressionStatement indicates one line ofa statement including semicolon (;) which represents end of thestatement. FunctionCall included in the abstract syntax treecorresponding to the seventh line means execution of a function andincludes a function name, an argument 1, an argument 2, and so on fromthe left of the child AST node. PropertyGet corresponding to thefunction name of FunctionCall means reference to a property of anobject, and Name means an object name, the function name, or a propertyname. StringLiteral corresponding to the argument 1 of FunctionCallindicates a character string. Further, InfixExpression of the argument 2means a binary operation and child AST nodes thereof indicate a leftside and a right side, respectively. Assignment included in the abstractsyntax tree corresponding to the eleventh line of the code in FIG. 3means an assignment statement, and child AST nodes thereof means a leftside and a right side, respectively. In addition, SubTrees 1 to 3 oftriangular nodes in FIG. 5 include each abstract syntax tree similarlyto other nodes, and SubTree 1 indicates a conditional statement in thefifth line of the code in FIG. 3, SubTree 2 indicates a statement in thesixth line of the code in FIG. 3, and SubTree 3 indicates a statement inthe eighth line of the code in FIG. 3.

For example, the syntax analysis unit 274 searches an AST node (AST nodeof setAttribute, location, or href) emphasized using the bold line inFIG. 5 as an AST node relating to the transfer code and the contentacquisition code illustrated in FIG. 4 from the abstract syntax treeillustrated in FIG. 5.

The syntax analysis unit 274 can specify an object and a function and aproperty of the object used in a transfer code or a content acquisitioncode that is not executed by the control statement by exhaustivelysearching the abstract syntax tree in this manner.

Incidentally, the syntax analysis unit 274 may perform syntax analysisof a code using a method other than the above-described method, ofcourse.

When a code as a search target (that is, a transfer code or a contentacquisition code) has been found as a result of the search by the syntaxanalysis unit 274, the program dependence graph construction unit 275 ofFIG. 2 constructs a program dependence graph, which indicates a datadependence relationship and a control dependence relationship betweennodes, using each statement of the code acquired from the web content asthe nodes. Further, the program dependence graph construction unit 275specifies a node relating to the found transfer code or contentacquisition code using the constructed program dependence graph.

For example, the program dependence graph construction unit 275constructs a program dependence graph using a variable definitionstatement, an assignment statement, a function definition statement, afunction execution statement, a return statement, a conditional branchstatement, a loop statement, an exception handling statement or the likein the JavaScript (registered trademark) code as a node (hereinafter,referred to as a PDG node) in the program dependence graph and the datadependence relationship or the control dependence relationship betweennodes as an edge (hereinafter, referred to as a PDG edge).

For example, the program dependence graph construction unit 275constructs the program dependence graph illustrated in FIG. 6 using thecode illustrated in FIG. 3. A description will be given regarding alabel described in each PDG node in the program dependence graphillustrated in FIG. 6. Variablelnitializer means definition of avariable and also describes a name of the variable as a definitiontarget. IfStatement, Assignment, and FunctionCall have the same meaningas the respective labels of the abstract syntax tree illustrated in FIG.5, and also describe a conditional statement, an object name, and afunction name. In addition, the PDG edge represented by the solid arrowin the program dependence graph illustrated in FIG. 6 indicates the datadependence relationship, and the PDG edge represented by the dashedarrow indicates the control dependence relationship. For example,FunctionCall ifr.setAttribute has the data dependence relationship withVariablelnitializer src, Variablelnitializer jre, andVariablelnitializer if r, and further has the control dependencerelationship with IfStatement jre[1]==“6” in the program dependencegraph illustrated in FIG. 6.

The program dependence graph construction unit 275 specifies the PDGnode relating to the code (AST node) specified by the syntax analysisunit 274 from the above-described program dependence graph. For example,when the syntax analysis unit 274 specifies the AST nodes (setAttribute,location, and href) emphasized by the bold line in the abstract syntaxtree illustrated in FIG. 5, the program dependence graph constructionunit 275 specifies the PDG nodes (FunctionCall ifr.setAttribute andAssignment location.href) emphasized by the bold line in FIG. 6 as thePDG nodes relating to the AST nodes.

The program slicing unit 276 of FIG. 2 extracts a slice from the programdependence graph by setting a statement of the node (for example, thePDG node emphasized by the bold line in FIG. 6) in the programdependence graph specified by the program dependence graph constructionunit 275 in the code acquired from the web content as a slicingcriteria. That is, the program slicing unit 276 extracts a slicerelating to the transfer code or the content acquisition code byapplying reverse slicing using the data dependence relationship (see thesolid arrow in FIG. 6) in the program dependence graph. Incidentally,the control dependence relationship in the program dependence graph isgenerally considered at the time of extracting a slice, but the programslicing unit 276 extracts a slice which does not depend on a controlstatement of a code by applying the reverse slicing upon considerationof the data dependence relationship without considering the controldependence relationship in the program dependence graph.

The program slicing unit 276 extracts a slice by setting the statementsof the PDG nodes (FunctionCall ifr.setAttribute and Assignmentlocation.href) emphasized by the bold line using the program dependencegraph illustrated in FIG. 6, for example, as slicing criterion(setAttribute( ):<7,setAttribute> in the seventh line andlocation.href:<11,location.href> in the eleventh line of the codeillustrated in FIG. 3). For example, the program slicing unit 276extracts a statement having a data dependence relationship with thestatement of setAttribute in the seventh line of the code illustrated inFIG. 3 as a slice based on the slicing criteria <7,setAttribute> (seereference sign 701→reference sign 702 in FIG. 7). Incidentally, theprogram slicing unit 276 also extracts a slice based on the slicingcriteria <11,location.href> in the same manner although not described.

The slice execution unit 277 of FIG. 2 causes the slice extracted by theprogram slicing unit 276 to be executed in the script interpreter 254.That is, the slice execution unit 277 causes the script interpreter 254to interpret the slice extracted by the program slicing unit 276, andmonitors an argument of each value to be assigned to the object and thefunction and the property of the object used in the transfer code or thecontent acquisition code during the interpretation, and extracts a URL.

For example, it is considered a case in which the browser emulator 25emulates client environment where a JRE (registered trademark) version 7is installed. In this case, the slice execution unit 277 causes a slicerepresented by reference sign 702 of FIG. 7 to be executed in the scriptinterpreter 254 of the browser emulator 25 and extracts a URL ofhttp://example.com/exploit/?jre=7 from the monitored argument 2 of afunction of setAttribute( ), for example, when monitoring the argumentof each value assigned to the object and the function and the propertyof the object used in the transfer code or the content acquisition code.

However, the slice execution unit 277 executes a slice at a timing whenread of a DOM (Document Object Model) is completed (for example,immediately before a DOMContentLoaded event in Firefox (registeredtrademark) or Google Chrome (registered trademark)) so as to enableexecution of a code to operate the DOM. In addition, the slice executionunit 277 duplicates, for execution of a slice, DOM information (astructure or a value of a DOM tree) and context information (forexample, the variable definition, the function definition, or the like)of JavaScript (registered trademark) at a point in time of executing theslice and discard the information after executing the slice such that aresult of the slice execution does not affect processing of originalJavaScript (registered trademark) or the like.

In addition, the access unit 252 of the browser emulator 25 furtheracquires web content by accessing a URL extracted by the slice execution(for example, a URL associated with “slice” of “1” in the analysisinformation illustrated in FIG. 8), and executes the scriptinterpretation using the script interpreter 254 and each processingusing the syntax analysis unit 274, the program dependence graphconstruction unit 275, the program slicing unit 276, and the sliceexecution unit 277 in the same manner as described above when a code isincluded in the acquired web content. That is, the browser emulatormanager 23 performs recursive analysis with respect to the URL extractedby the slice execution. Accordingly, the browser emulator manager 23 canextract URLs which are likely to be the attack URL or the stepping-stoneURL as many as possible.

Incidentally, whether to perform the recursive analysis with respect tothe URL extracted by the slice execution as above using the browseremulator manager 23 may be appropriately set by an administrator of thesystem or the like depending on an object as a monitoring target, aproperty of the object, and a function.

(Analysis Information Database)

Next, the analysis information database 24 will be described. Asdescribed above, the analysis information database 24 stores theanalysis information. An example of the analysis information isillustrated in FIG. 8 and is information which is associated with ananalysis ID as identification information of the analysis information,“access URL” as a URL accessed when the browser emulator 25 accesses theURL of an analysis target website, “time stamp” representing date andtime when the URL is accessed, “slice” indicating whether the URL is aURL extracted by the program slicing, and the like. Incidentally, theURL associated with the item of “slice” as “1” in the analysisinformation represents that the URL is the URL extracted by the programslicing, and a URL associated with the item of “slice” as “0” representsthat the URL is not the URL extracted by the program slicing. Inaddition, “access URL” includes not only the URL of the analysis targetwebsite but also a URL of a website transferred by the access to theURL. Incidentally, the analysis information may include informationother than above-described information, of course.

According to the system described above, the code acquired from the webcontent is exhaustively searched, and the transfer code or the contentacquisition code is specified. Further, the URL is extracted from thetransfer code or the content acquisition code thus specified. As aresult, the system can extract the URL which is likely to be the attackURL or the stepping-stone URL in the drive-by download attack performeddepending on the client environment.

(Processing Procedure)

Next, an example of a processing procedure of the system will bedescribed with reference to FIG. 9. First, the URL list creation unit271 creates the bypass target URL list (S1). For example, the URL listcreation unit 271 creates the bypass target URL list based on theblacklist of published malicious websites.

Further, the access instruction unit 272 inputs a URL in the bypasstarget URL list to the browser emulator 25 (S2), and the browseremulator 25 accesses the URL input in S2 using the access unit 252 (S3).Further, the access unit 252 acquires web content from the URL as theaccess destination.

Incidentally, the access instruction unit 272 may cause the singlebrowser emulator 25 to access a plurality of URLs or cause the pluralityof browser emulators 25 to access URLs different from each other in S2.

After S3, the HTML/CSS parser 253 of the browser emulator 25 interpretsthe acquired web content, the script interpreter 254 interprets a codewhen the code is included in the acquired web content, and the programanalysis unit 273 analyzes the code (S4). Details of the code analysiswill be described later.

After S4, the access unit 252 outputs the access log (S5). That is, theaccess unit 252 outputs a result of the access to the URL input by theaccess instruction unit 272 as the access log. Further, the registrationprocessing unit 278 shapes the access log output in S5 and the URLoutput through the code analysis in S4 (S6) and stores the shaped datain the analysis information database 24 (see FIG. 8) (S7).

Here, if an instruction to analyze the URL extracted by the sliceexecution of the slice execution unit 277 is set (Yes in S8), the accessinstruction unit 272 reads the URL extracted by the slice execution fromthe analysis information of the analysis information database 24 andperforms the processes of S2 and the subsequent steps using the URL as aURL which is a bypass target URL. That is, the browser emulator manager23 performs the recursive analysis with respect to the URL extracted bythe slice execution.

Incidentally, if the instruction to analyze the URL extracted by theslice execution is not set in S8 (No in S8) and there is the next bypassURL in the bypass target URL list (Yes in S9), the process returns toS2. On the other hand, if there is no next bypass URL in the bypasstarget URL list (No in S9), the process is ended.

When the analysis information is stored in the analysis informationdatabase 24 in the above-described manner, the URL analysis unit 279performs an analyzing process of URLs in the analysis information toextract a URL which is highly likely to be the attack URL or thestepping-stone URL, for example.

Next, the code analyzing process in S4 of FIG. 9 will be described indetail with reference to FIG. 10 and FIG. 11. Here, the description willbe given by exemplifying a case in which the abstract syntax tree (seeFIG. 5) is used when the syntax analysis unit 274 performs the syntaxanalysis of a code.

First, the syntax analysis unit 274 converts the code acquired from theweb content into the abstract syntax tree (see FIG. 5) (S11 in FIG. 10).Here, if there is an abstract syntax tree node as a search target in theabstract syntax tree (Yes in S12), the program dependence graphconstruction unit 275 constructs the program dependence graph (see FIG.6) (S13). On the other hand, there is no abstract syntax tree node asthe search target in the abstract syntax tree (No in S12), the processproceeds to S18 in FIG. 11.

In addition, if the abstract syntax tree node as the search target is anode relating to the transfer code or the content acquisition code (Yesin S14) after S13, the program dependence graph construction unit 275specifies a program dependence graph node relating to the abstractsyntax tree node (S15). Further, the program dependence graphconstruction unit 275 holds the program dependence graph node specifiedin S15 as a node to be used for the slicing criteria (S16). On the otherhand, if the abstract syntax tree node as the search target is a noderelating to neither the transfer code nor the content acquisition codein S14 (No in S14), the process proceeds to S17.

In S17, the program dependence graph construction unit 275 determinesthat there is an abstract syntax tree node as the next search target(Yes in S17), the process proceeds to S13. On the other hand, when it isdetermined that there is no abstract syntax tree node as the next searchtarget (No in S17), the process proceeds to S18 of FIG. 11.

In S18 of FIG. 11, when the program dependence graph construction unit275 determines that there is the program dependence graph node held asthe slicing criteria (Yes in S18), the program slicing unit 276 extractsa slice using a statement of the program dependence graph node held inS16 as the slicing criteria (S19). Incidentally, the program dependencegraph construction unit 275 determines that there is no programdependence graph node held as the slicing criteria in S18 (No in S18),the process is ended.

After S19, the slice execution unit 277 executes the slice extracted inS19 (S20) and extracts and outputs a URL from values or arguments to beassigned to an object and a function and a property of the object usedin the transfer code or the content acquisition code (S21). After S21,the process returns to S19 when the program dependence graph node as thenext slicing criteria is still present (Yes in S22) or is ended whenthere is no program dependence graph node as the next slicing criteria(No in S22).

According to the system described above, the code acquired from the webcontent is exhaustively searched, and the transfer code or the contentacquisition code is specified. Further, the URL is extracted from thetransfer code or the content acquisition code thus specified. As aresult, the system can extract the URL which is likely to be the attackURL or the stepping-stone URL in the drive-by download attack performeddepending on the client environment.

Incidentally, the object and the function and the property of the objectspecified by the syntax analysis unit 274 are not limited to thoserelating to the transfer code or the content acquisition code, but maybe appropriately changed depending on a purpose.

In addition, the statement set as the program dependence graph node inthe program dependence graph among the statements of the JavaScript(registered trademark) code in the program dependence graph constructionunit 275 is assumed as the variable definition statement, the assignmentstatement, the function definition statement, the function executionstatement, the return statement, the conditional branch statement, theloop statement, the exception handling statement, or the like, but anyaddition or change may be made by the administrator of the system or thelike other than the above-described statements.

Incidentally, the information output as the result of the code analysisby the program analysis unit 273 may be information other than the URL.For example, when the information on an object and a function and aproperty of the object used in an attack code is known in advance, theprogram analysis unit 273 may specify the attack code using theinformation and output the various types of information used in thespecified attack code.

In addition, the system is assumed to access the analysis target website12 using the browser emulator 25, but may access the analysis targetwebsite 12 using a configuration other than the browser emulator 25 (forexample, the actual client environment).

In addition, the program slicing unit 276 of the system is assumed toextract the slice based on the data dependence relationship withoutconsidering the control dependence relationship in the programdependence graph constructed by the program dependence graphconstruction unit 275, but is not limited thereto. For example, theprogram slicing unit 276 may extract a slice using a part of the controldependence relationship in the program dependence graph and the datadependence relationship. Further, the program slicing unit 276 isassumed to extract the slice using the program dependence graph, but maynot use the program dependence graph as long as it is possible to graspthe control dependence relationship and the data dependence relationshipof each code.

[Second Embodiment]

Next, a configuration example of a system according to a secondembodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 12. In the secondembodiment, the description will be given regarding a method ofextracting a slice considering a control dependence relationship and amethod of specifying client environment required for transfer. Thesecond embodiment is characterized by including an execution path searchunit 270 a, which extracts a slice for each execution path toexhaustively extract URLs when the execution path is included in theextracted slice, and a program slicing unit 276 a which adds a noderepresenting a conditional branch statement in a program dependencegraph as a slicing criteria to specify the client environment requiredfor transfer to an extracted URL which is likely to be an attack URL ora stepping-stone URL. The system is provided with a network 1 a and anetwork 2 a as illustrated in FIG. 12, for example. The network 1 a andthe network 2 a are connected via a packet transfer device 3 a.

The network 1 a is provided with an analysis target website 12 a. Thenetwork 1 a may be a wide area network such as the Internet, a small andmedium-scale network such as a corporate network, or a network of groundenvironment or hosting environment.

The analysis target website 12 a is a website serving as an analysistarget of a browser emulator manager (analysis device) 23 a. Examples ofthe analysis target website 12 a may include a website posted in ablacklist of published malicious websites, and the like.

In addition, the network 2 a is provided with the browser emulatormanager 23 a and an analysis information database 24 a. The network 2 amay be a small-scale network such as a local area network, a small andmedium-scale network such as a corporate network, or a network of groundenvironment or hosting environment.

The browser emulator manager 23 a manages one or more browser emulators25 a and causes the browser emulator 25 a to access a predeterminedwebsite (the analysis target website 12 a). Further, the browseremulator manager 23 a stores a URL of a website accessed by the browseremulator 25 a, and a URL or the like obtained by analyzing a codeacquired from the website in the analysis information database 24 a.

The browser emulator 25 a is a device which emulates an operation of abrowser. For example, a browser emulator (seehttp://www.honeynet.org/node/827) provided by Honeynet Project, HtmlUnitor Selenium which has been developed as an open source can be applied asthe browser emulator 25 a. Details of the browser emulator 25 a will bedescribed later. Incidentally, the browser emulator 25 a is drawn to beconstructed inside the browser emulator manager 23 a in FIG. 12, but maybe constructed outside the browser emulator manager 23 a, of course.

The URL of the website accessed by the browser emulator 25 a, and theURL or the like obtained by analyzing the code acquired from the websiteare stored (saved) in the analysis information database 24 a. The datamay be saved in the analysis information database 24 a using an RDBMS(Relational DataBase Management System) or may be saved in a textformat. Details of the analysis information database 24 a will bedescribed later.

Incidentally, the browser emulator 25 a, the browser emulator manager 23a and the analysis information database 24 a are arranged in the samenetwork in the present embodiment, but may be arranged in differentnetworks. In addition, the existing cryptographic technology may beapplied to encrypt communication information or the respective networksin which the respective devices are arranged or the respectiveconfigurations may be connected to each other via a VPN (Virtual PrivateNetwork) in order to securely connect the respective configurations.

Next, the browser emulator manager 23 a and the browser emulator 25 awill be described in detail with reference to FIG. 13. The browseremulator manager 23 a is provided with the browser emulator 25 a and acontrol unit 27 a. The control unit 27 a causes the browser emulator 25a to operate on a host system 26 a. For example, an OS provided in thebrowser emulator manager 23 a is used as the host system 26 a. Detailsof the control unit 27 a will be described later.

(Browser Emulator)

Next, the browser emulator 25 a will be described. The browser emulator25 a is provided with a client environment emulation unit 251 a, anaccess unit 252 a, an HTML/CSS (HyperText Markup Language/CascadingStyle Sheets) parser 253 a, and a script interpreter 254 a.

The client environment emulation unit 251 a sets information of clientenvironment (for example, an OS, a browser, a plug-in, and the like)that needs to be emulated by the browser emulator 25 a.

The access unit 252 a performs communication with a website (forexample, the analysis target website 12 a in FIG. 12) using HTTP(HyperText Transfer Protocol) or HTTPS (HyperText Transfer ProtocolSecure) and acquires web content from the website. Here, the access unit252 a uses the client environment, set by the client environmentemulation unit 251 a, as a User-Agent field of an HTTP header during thecommunication using the HTTP or HTTPS. In this manner, the browseremulator 25 a emulates the client environment. For example, a cURL whichhas been developed as free software is used as the access unit 252 a.

In addition, the access unit 252 a records a result of the access to thewebsite in an access log. For example, the access unit 252 a records aURL of the accessed website, date and time of the access in the accesslog. In addition, when transition to another website occurs as theresult of the access to the website, the access unit 252 a also recordsa URL of a transition destination or the like in the access log.

The HTML/CSS parser 253 a is a content parser that interprets the webcontent acquired by the access unit 252 a. In addition, when a code isincluded in the web content as a result of the interpretation of the webcontent, the HTML/CSS parser 253 a interprets the code using the scriptinterpreter 254 a.

The script interpreter 254 a interprets the code included in the webcontent. For example, when the code is written using JavaScript(registered trademark), the script interpreter 254 a interprets the codeusing SpiderMonkey developed as an open source, a JavaScript (registeredtrademark) interpreter such as V8 JavaScript (registered trademark)Engine, Rhino which is a JavaScript (registered trademark) interpreterwritten in Java (registered trademark), or the like.

(Control Unit)

Next, the control unit 27 a will be described. The control unit 27 a isprovided with a URL list creation unit 271 a, an access instruction unit272 a, a program analysis unit 273 a, a registration processing unit 278a, and a URL analysis unit 279 a.

The URL list creation unit 271 a creates a bypass target URL list whichis a URL list of websites (the analysis target website 12 a) that therespective browser emulators 25 a bypass. For example, the URL listcreation unit 271 a creates the bypass target URL list based on URLs ofwebsites posted in the blacklist of published malicious websites.

The access instruction unit 272 a instructs the access unit 252 a ofeach of the browser emulators 25 a to access a URL listed in the bypasstarget URL list (URL list).

The program analysis unit 273 a performs analysis of a program (code)included in web content acquired from a website as an accessdestination. Details of the program analysis unit 273 a will bedescribed later.

The registration processing unit 278 a acquires each access log of thebrowser emulators 25 a and registers the acquired access log in theanalysis information database 24 a. In addition, the registrationprocessing unit 278 a registers a URL or client environment information(environment information), obtained from the analysis (execution of aslice to be described later) of the code by the program analysis unit273 a in the analysis information database 24 a.

The URL analysis unit 279 a analyzes a URL (analysis information)obtained from the access log stored in the analysis information database24 a or the code analysis, and outputs a result of the analysis. Forexample, the URL analysis unit 279 a extracts a URL which is likely tobe an attack URL or a stepping-stone URL from the URL included in theaccess log and the URL obtained by the code analysis and outputs theextracted URL.

(Program Analysis Unit)

Next, the program analysis unit 273 a will be described in detail. Theprogram analysis unit 273 a is provided with a syntax analysis unit 274a, a program dependence graph construction unit 275 a, the programslicing unit 276 a, a slice execution unit 277 a, and the execution pathsearch unit 270 a.

The syntax analysis unit 274 a performs syntax analysis of a codeincluded in web content acquired by the browser emulator 25 a. To bespecific, the script interpreter 254 a of the browser emulator 25 aperforms the syntax analysis of a script in the course of interpretingthe script of the code included in the web content and specifies atransfer code to another site from the code included in the web content.

A specific example of the syntax analysis will be described. Here, acode as an analysis target is assumed to be a code written usingJavaScript (registered trademark) as illustrated in FIG. 14, forexample. Incidentally, the code illustrated in FIG. 14 is a scripttransfer code which executes a conditional branch statement based onversion information of Java (registered trademark) installed in a clientand then executes transfer to another website. In addition, the transfercode as a target to be specified by the syntax analysis unit 274 a isassumed to be a script transfer code represented by a reference sign 401a in FIG. 15, for example. Incidentally, a tag transfer code representedby reference sign 402 a in FIG. 15 is a code that acquires externalcontent based on a URL to be assigned to a predetermined attribute namein a predetermined HTML tag. A pair of the HTML tag used in the tagtransfer code and the attribute name that designates the URL of theexternal content is assumed to be a pair of an HTML tag and an attributename represented by reference sign 403 a in FIG. 15, for example. Theinformation (specifying target code information) relating to these codesis stored in a predetermined area of a storage unit (not illustrated) ofthe browser emulator manager 23 a and a system administrator or the likethereof can be appropriately set.

For example, the syntax analysis unit 274 a converts the code into treestructure data using an abstract syntax tree and specifies the transfercode by searching the tree structure data. Incidentally, a technique inNon Patent Literature 3, for example, may be used as an analysis methodfor the data conversion using the abstract syntax tree and thespecifying of the transfer code. The syntax analysis unit 274 aspecifies an object and a function and a property of the object used inthe transfer code illustrated in FIG. 15, for example, by exhaustivelysearching the abstract syntax tree. In the code illustrated in FIG. 14,location.href in the fourteenth line becomes the specifying target.

Incidentally, the syntax analysis unit 274 a may perform syntax analysisusing a method other than the above-described method, of course. Inaddition, FIG. 14 and FIG. 15 are mere the examples illustrated todescribe the program analysis unit 273 a, and the invention is notlimited thereto.

The program dependence graph construction unit 275 a of FIG. 13constructs a program dependence graph, which indicates a data dependencerelationship and a control dependence relationship between nodes, usingeach statement of the code acquired from the web content as the nodesduring the syntax analysis using the syntax analysis unit 274 a.Further, the program dependence graph construction unit 275 a specifiesa node relating to the transfer code specified by the syntax analysisunit 274 a using the constructed program dependence graph.

For example, the program dependence graph construction unit 275 aconstructs a program dependence graph using a variable definitionstatement, an assignment statement, a function definition statement, afunction execution statement, a return statement, a conditional branchstatement, a loop statement, an exception handling statement or the likein the JavaScript (registered trademark) code as a node (hereinafter,referred to as a PDG node) in the program dependence graph and the datadependence relationship or the control dependence relationship betweennodes as an edge (hereinafter, referred to as a PDG edge).

For example, the program dependence graph construction unit 275 aconstructs the program dependence graph illustrated in FIG. 16 using thecode illustrated in FIG. 14. A description will be given regarding alabel described in each PDG node in the program dependence graphillustrated in FIG. 16. Variablelnitializer means definition of avariable and also describes a name of the variable as a definitiontarget. IfStatement and Assignment, respectively, indicate a conditionalstatement and variable assignment, and also describe a conditionalexpression and a variable name. In addition, a number attached to thePDG node indicates a line number of the code illustrated in FIG. 14. ThePDG edge represented by the solid arrow in the program dependence graphillustrated in FIG. 16 indicates the data dependence relationship, andthe PDG edge represented by the dashed arrow indicates the controldependence relationship.

For example, IfStatement jre[1]==“6” represents to have a datadependence relationship with Variablelnitializer jre, and further,IfStatement jre[1]==“6” represents to have a control dependencerelationship with Assignment url and IfStatement jre[1]==“7” in theprogram dependence graph illustrated in FIG. 16.

The program dependence graph construction unit 275 a specifies the PDGnode relating to the code specified by the syntax analysis unit 274 afrom the above-described program dependence graph. For example, when thesyntax analysis unit 274 a specifies location.href in the fourteenthline from the code illustrated in FIG. 14, the program dependence graphconstruction unit 275 a specifies a PDG node (Assignment location.href)emphasized by the bold line in FIG. 16.

The program slicing unit 276 a of FIG. 13 extracts a slice from theprogram dependence graph by setting a statement of the node (forexample, the PDG node emphasized by the bold line in FIG. 16) of theprogram dependence graph specified by the program dependence graphconstruction unit 275 a in the code acquired from the web content as aslicing criteria.

In general, the data dependence relationship and the control dependencerelationship in the program dependence graph are recursively traced atthe time of extracting a slice. However, the program slicing unit 276 aaccording to the present embodiment first recursively traces the datadependence relationship in the program dependence graph to extract astatement (node) relating to the reference to the variable definition,and then, traces the control dependence relationship a predeterminednumber of times or less (for example, once) to extract a statementrelating to a control flow of the extracted statement, and slices theextracted statement. At this time, when a function definition statement(function statement) is included in the extracted slice, the programslicing unit 276 a extracts the function call statement together. Inaddition, when the function definition statement includes an argument,the program slicing unit 276 a also extracts a statement relating to theargument of the function call statement in the same manner.

Incidentally, the reason why the control dependence relationship istraced the predetermined number of times or less (for example, once) isbecause there is a possibility that a statement hardly relating to aslicing criteria (focused statement, for example, Assignmentlocation.href in FIG. 16) if the control dependence relationship isrecursively traced. That is, the program slicing unit 276 a according tothe present embodiment can extract a statement highly relating to theslicing criteria (focused statement, for example, Assignmentlocation.href in FIG. 16) by recursively tracing the data dependencerelationship in the program dependence graph and then, tracing thecontrol dependence relationship in the state of being narrowed down tothe predetermined number of times or less (for example, once).

The program slicing unit 276 a extracts a slice by setting the statementof the PDG node (Assignment location.href) emphasized by the bold lineusing the program dependence graph illustrated in FIG. 16, for example,as a slicing criteria (location.href:<14,location.href> in thefourteenth line of the code illustrated in FIG. 14). For example, theprogram slicing unit 276 a first extracts the PDG node recursivelyconsidering the statement of location.href in the fourteenth line of thecode illustrated in FIG. 14 and the data dependence relationship basedon the slicing criteria <14, location.href>, and then, extracts the PDGnode considering the control dependence relationship only once (that is,the PDG node illustrated in FIG. 17 is extracted from the programdependence graph illustrated in FIG. 16). Further, the program slicingunit 276 a extracts a slice illustrated as reference sign 701a→reference sign 702 a in FIG. 18 based on the PDG node illustrated inFIG. 17, for example.

The execution path search unit 270 a in FIG. 13 extracts a slice foreach execution path by performing syntax analysis of the slice using thesyntax analysis unit 274 a when a plurality of execution paths areincluded in the slice extracted by the program slicing unit 276 a (thatis, the conditional branch statement and the like are included at thetime of considering the control dependence relationship). That is, theexecution path search unit 270 a extracts a slice that does not dependon the control flow by causing the syntax analysis unit 274 a to performthe syntax analysis of the search target code (slice) and extractingeach slice for each execution path when the plurality of execution pathsdue to the conditional branch statement and the like are specifiedduring the syntax analysis. For example, the execution path search unit270 a extracts three slices represented by reference signs 802 a to 804a in FIG. 19 from the code (slice) represented by reference sign 801 ain FIG. 19 (or reference sign 702 a in FIG. 18).

Incidentally, the execution path search unit 270 a extracts the slicewithout depending on the control flow, and thus, generates each sliceobtained by removing the conditional branch statement, the loopstatement, the exception handling statement, or the like.

The slice execution unit 277 a of FIG. 13 causes the slice extracted bythe program slicing unit 276 a or the execution path search unit 270 ato be executed in the script interpreter 254 a. That is, the sliceexecution unit 277 a causes the script interpreter 254 a to interpretthe slice extracted by the program slicing unit 276 a or the executionpath search unit 270 a, and monitors an argument of each value to beassigned to the object and the function and the property of the objectused in the transfer code or the content acquisition code during theinterpretation, and extracts a URL.

For example, the slice execution unit 277 a causes the scriptinterpreter 254 a of the browser emulator 25 a to execute the respectiveslices represented by reference signs 802 a to 804 a in FIG. 19,monitors the arguments of the object and the function and the assignedvalue of the property used in the transfer code, and extracts a URL ofhttp://A.example/mal1/, http://A.example/mal2/, http://B.example/benign/from the monitored property of location.href, for example.

However, the slice execution unit 277 a executes a slice at a timingwhen read of a DOM (Document Object Model) is completed (for example,immediately before a DOMContentLoaded event in Firefox (registeredtrademark) or Google Chrome (registered trademark)) so as to enableexecution of a code to operate the DOM. In addition, the slice executionunit 277 a duplicates, for execution of a slice, DOM information (astructure or a value of a DOM tree) and context information (forexample, the variable definition, the function definition, or the like)of JavaScript (registered trademark) at a point in time of executing theslice and discard the information after executing the slice such that aresult of the slice execution does not affect processing of originalJavaScript (registered trademark) or the like.

In addition, the access unit 252 a of the browser emulator 25 a furtheracquires web content by accessing a URL extracted by the slice execution(for example, a URL associated with “slice” of “1” in the analysisinformation illustrated in FIG. 22), and executes the scriptinterpretation using the script interpreter 254 a and each processingusing the syntax analysis unit 274 a, the program dependence graphconstruction unit 275 a, the program slicing unit 276 a, the executionpath search unit 270 a, and the slice execution unit 277 a in the samemanner as described above when a code is included in the acquired webcontent. That is, the browser emulator manager 23 a performs recursiveanalysis with respect to the URL extracted by the slice execution.Accordingly, the browser emulator manager 23 a can extract URLs whichare likely to be the attack URL or the stepping-stone URL as many aspossible.

Incidentally, whether to perform the recursive analysis with respect tothe URL extracted by the slice execution as above using the browseremulator manager 23 a may be appropriately set by an administrator ofthe system or the like depending on an object as a monitoring target, aproperty of the object, and a function.

According to the program analysis unit 273 a described above, the codeacquired from the web content is exhaustively analyzed, and the transfercode is specified. Further, the URL is extracted from the specifiedtransfer code. In addition, the program analysis unit 273 a specifiesthe client environment information required for the transfer to theextracted URL. The specifying of the client environment informationperformed by the program analysis unit 273 a will be described.

(Specifying of Client Environment Information)

When the slice extracted by the program slicing unit 276 a includes aconditional branch statement in the case where the URL has beenextracted by the slice execution unit 277 a, the program analysis unit273 a sets the conditional branch statement as a slicing criteria.Further, the program slicing unit 276 a extracts a slice using theslicing criteria and executes the extracted slice using the sliceexecution unit 277 a. As a result, when the determination of a conditionto use the client environment information has been performed with aconditional branch statement in the previous stage of a transfer codefrom which the URL has been extracted in the code included in the webcontent, it is possible to know that the transfer code is the transfercode that depends on the client environment.

The condition determination is performed after performing split andcoupling of version information using a character string operationfunction in order to evaluate a major version and a minor version of thebrowser and the plug-in in many cases in the conditional branchstatement using the client environment information as above (see thestatement in the second line in the code illustrated in FIG. 14 and NonPatent Literature 5). Therefore, the slice execution unit 277 a causesthe script interpreter 254 a to interpret the slice extracted by theprogram slicing unit 276 a and monitors the arguments of the object andthe function and the assigned value of the property, which relate to thecharacter string operation or the like used for the slice during theinterpretation, thereby specifying the use of the client environmentinformation through the slice execution. That is, the slice executionunit 277 a associates an extracted URL with the client environmentinformation required for the transfer to the URL.

For example, when the conditional branch statement included in the slicerepresented by reference sign 702 a in FIG. 18 (or reference sign 801 ain FIG. 19) is set as the slicing criteria (corresponding to ifstatement: <5,if> in the fifth line of the code represented by referencesign 702 a in FIG. 18), a PDG node as an extraction target isillustrated in FIG. 20. Incidentally, the program slicing unit 276 aalso extracts a slice based on a slicing criteria <8,if> in the samemanner although not described.

Further, the program slicing unit 276 a extracts a slice illustrated asreference sign 1001 a→reference sign 1002 a in FIG. 21 based on the PDGnode illustrated in FIG. 20, for example.

For example, it is considered a case in which the browser emulator 25 aemulates client environment where a Java (registered trademark) version“1.6.0.22” is installed. In this case, the slice execution unit 277 acauses the script interpreter 254 a of the browser emulator 25 a toexecute the slice represented by reference sign 1002 a in FIG. 21 andmonitors the arguments of the object and the function and the assignedvalue of the property relating to the character string operation or thelike. Further, when a String object of a split function which is afunction relating to the character string operation which is monitoredin the slice execution unit 277 a is specified as “1.6.0.22” which isthe version value of Java (registered trademark), it is possible tospecify that the environment information of Java (registered trademark)is used for the execution of the extracted slice.

Incidentally, when the slice execution unit 277 a specifies the use ofthe client environment information in the code included in the webcontent, for example, the specifying may be performed using completematching between name information and version information of clientenvironment emulated by the browser emulator 25 a or a signature ofclient information which uses regular expression may be generated andthe specifying is performed using the signature.

However, the slice execution unit 277 a duplicates the DOM informationand the JavaScript (registered trademark) context information at a pointin time of executing the slice similarly as the time of extracting theURL, for slice execution, and discards the information after the sliceexecution. Incidentally, the function or the property monitored at thetime of slice execution is not limited the above, but the systemadministrator or the like may appropriately add or remove a function ora property as a monitoring target.

In addition, the method of specifying the client environment informationthat relates to the extracted URL also includes a method of using fileextension information used in a URL and a method of using HTML taginformation used in a tag transfer code. For example, when a URL is aURL which uses file extension of “jar”, the method of using the fileextension information can specify that the URL is a URL relating to Java(registered trademark). In addition, when a tag transfer code is a codewhich uses an object tag, for example, a URL is designated as a dataattribute and a MIME type is designated as a type attribute according tothe method of using the HTML tag information. Thus, when the typeattribute is “application/pdf”, for example, it is possible to specifythat the URL designated as the data attribute is a URL relating to aPDF.

In this manner, the method of specifying the client environmentinformation that relates to the URL using the file extension informationor the HTML tag information may be also used together with theabove-described specifying method of using the program analysis unit 273a, of course. In this manner, the program analysis unit 273 a canincrease the number of URLs with which the client environmentinformation can be specified.

(Analysis Information Database)

Next the analysis information database 24 a will be described. Asdescribed above, the analysis information database 24 a stores theanalysis information. An example of the analysis information isillustrated in FIG. 22 and is information which is associated with“analysis ID” as identification information of the analysis information,“access URL” as a URL accessed when the browser emulator 25 a accessesthe URL of an analysis target website, “time stamp” representing dateand time when the URL is accessed, “slice” indicating whether the URL isa URL extracted by the program slicing, “environment information”indicating the client environment information required for transfer whenthe URL is a URL to which the transfer is performed depending on clientenvironment, and the like.

Incidentally, the URL associated with the item of “slice” as “1” in theanalysis information represents that the URL is the URL extracted by theprogram slicing, and a URL associated with the item of “slice” as “0”represents that the URL is not the URL extracted by the program slicing(that is, the URL is a URL extracted through normal access). Inaddition, “access URL” includes not only the URL of the analysis targetwebsite but also a URL of a website transferred by the access to theURL. Incidentally, the analysis information may include informationother than above-described information, of course.

According to the above-described system, it is possible to exhaustivelyextract the URLs from the code acquired from the web content. As aresult, the system can extract the URL which is likely to be the attackURL or the stepping-stone URL in the drive-by download attack performeddepending on the client environment. In addition, the system can specifythe client environment information required for the transfer to theextracted URL.

(Processing Procedure)

Next, an example of a processing procedure of the system will bedescribed with reference to FIG. 23. First, the URL list creation unit271 a creates the bypass target URL list (S101). For example, the URLlist creation unit 271 a creates the bypass target URL list based on theblacklist of published malicious websites.

Further, the access instruction unit 272 a inputs a URL in the bypasstarget URL list to the browser emulator 25 a (S102), and the browseremulator 25 a accesses the URL input in S102 using the access unit 252 a(S103). Further, the access unit 252 a acquires web content from the URLas the access destination.

Incidentally, the access instruction unit 272 a may cause the singlebrowser emulator 25 a to access a plurality of URLs or cause theplurality of browser emulators 25 a to access URLs different from eachother in S102.

After S103, the HTML/CSS parser 253 a of the browser emulator 25 ainterprets the acquired web content, the script interpreter 254 ainterprets a code when the code is included in the acquired web content,and the program analysis unit 273 a analyzes the code (S104). Details ofthe code analysis will be described later.

After S104, the access unit 252 a outputs the access log (S105). Thatis, the access unit 252 a outputs a result of the access to the URLinput by the access instruction unit 272 a as the access log. Further,the registration processing unit 278 a shapes the access log output inS105 and the URL and the environment information output through the codeanalysis in S104 (S106) and stores the shaped data in the analysisinformation database 24 a (see FIG. 22) (S107).

Here, if an instruction to analyze the URL extracted by the sliceexecution of the slice execution unit 277 a is set (Yes in S108), theaccess instruction unit 272 a reads the URL extracted by the sliceexecution from the analysis information of the analysis informationdatabase 24 a and performs the processes of S102 and the subsequentsteps using the URL as a URL which is a bypass target URL. That is, thebrowser emulator manager 23 a performs recursive analysis with respectto the URL extracted by the slice execution.

Incidentally, if the instruction to analyze the URL extracted by theslice execution is not set in S108 (No in S108) and there is the nextbypass URL in the bypass target URL list (Yes in S109), the processreturns to S102. On the other hand, if there is no next bypass URL inthe bypass target URL list (No in S109), the process is ended.

When the analysis information is stored in the analysis informationdatabase 24 a in the above-described manner, the URL analysis unit 279 aperforms an analyzing process of URLs in the analysis information toextract a URL which is highly likely to be the attack URL or thestepping-stone URL, for example.

Next, the code analyzing process in S104 of FIG. 23 will be described indetail with reference to FIG. 24, FIG. 25, and FIG. 26.

First, the syntax analysis unit 274 a performs syntax analysis of eachstatement of the code acquired from the web content (S1010). Here, ifthere is a statement as a target of the syntax analysis (Yes in S1011),the program dependence graph construction unit 275 a constructs theprogram dependence graph (see FIG. 16) (51012). On the other hand, thereis no statement as the syntax analysis target (No in S1011), the processproceeds to S1016 in FIG. 25.

In addition, when the statement as the syntax analysis target is theprogram dependence graph node (PDG node) relating to the transfer codeas the specifying target after 51012 (Yes in S1013), the programdependence graph construction unit 275 a holds the PDG node as theslicing criteria (S1014). On the other hand, when the statement as thesyntax analysis target is the PDG node which does not relate to thetransfer code as the specifying target in S1013 (No in S1013), theprocess proceeds to S1015.

In S1015, when the syntax analysis unit 274 a determines that there isthe next statement as the syntax analysis target (Yes in S1015), theprocess returns to S1012. On the other hand, when it is determined thatthere is no next statement as the syntax analysis target (No in S1015),the process proceeds to S1016 in FIG. 25.

In S1016 of FIG. 25, when the program analysis unit 273 a determinesthat there is the PDG node held as the slicing criteria in S1014 (Yes inS1016), the program slicing unit 276 a extracts a slice by programslicing using the held node (PDG node) as the slicing criteria (S1017).Details of this slice extracting process using the program slicing unit276 a will be described later. Incidentally, the program analysis unit273 a determines that there is no PDG node held in S1014 as the slicingcriteria in S1016 (No in S1016), the process is ended.

After S1017, when the execution path search unit 270 a determines thatthe slice extracted in S1017 includes a plurality of execution paths(Yes in S1018), a slice is extracted for each execution path (S1019). Onthe other hand, when the execution path search unit 270 a determinesthat the slice extracted in S1017 does not include a plurality ofexecution paths (No in S1018), the process proceeds to S1020.

In S1020, the slice execution unit 277 a executes the slice extracted inS1017 when the slice extracted in S1017 does not include a plurality ofexecution paths, and executes the slice extracted in S1019 when theslice extracted in S1017 includes a plurality of execution paths(S1020). At this time, the slice execution unit 277 a monitors thearguments of the object and the function and the assigned value of theproperty relating to the transfer code and extract and output the URLused in the transfer code (S1021). After S1021, the process proceeds toS1023 in FIG. 26.

In S1023 of FIG. 26, when the slice extracted in S1017 of FIG. 25includes a conditional branch statement (Yes in S1023), the programslicing unit 276 a extracts a slice through program slicing using theconditional branch statement as a slicing criteria (S1024). Details ofthis slice extracting process using the program slicing unit 276 a willbe described later similarly to S1017. Incidentally, the slice extractedin S1017 of FIG. 25 does not include the conditional branch statement inS1023 (No in S1023), the process proceeds to S1022 in FIG. 25.

After S1024, the slice execution unit 277 a executes the slice extractedin S1024 (S1025). At this time, the slice execution unit 277 a specifiesthe use of the client environment information by the execution of theslice extracted in S1024 by monitoring the arguments of the object andthe function and the assigned value of the property relating to thecharacter string operation (S1026).

After S1026, the process returns to S1024 when the extracted sliceincludes the next conditional branch statement (Yes in S1027) orproceeds to S1022 in FIG. 25 when the extracted slice does not includethe next conditional branch statement (No in S1027).

In S1022 of FIG. 25, the process returns to S1017 when there is a PDGnode as the next slicing criteria (Yes in S1022) or is ended when thereis no PDG node as the next slicing criteria (No in S1022).

Next, the process (slice extracting process) in S1017 of FIG. 25 andS1024 of FIG. 26 will be described with reference to FIG. 27.

First, the program slicing unit 276 a holds the node (PDG node), whichis the slicing criteria, as an analysis target node (S1028), and addsthe held analysis target node as a slice target node (S1029). Next, theprogram slicing unit 276 a reversely traces the PDG edge having the datadependence relationship with the held analysis target node, once, andholds all the traced PDG nodes as the analysis target nodes (S1030). Theprocess returns to S1029 when there is an edge (PDG edge) having thedata dependence relationship with any of the held analysis target nodes(Yes in S1031) or proceeds to S1032 when there is no PDG edge having thedata dependence relationship with any of the held analysis target nodes(No in S1031).

In S1032, the program slicing unit 276 a reversely traces the PDG edgehaving the control dependence relationship with the slice target node(that is, the PDG node extracted by tracing the PDG edge having the datadependence relationship in the program dependence graph), once, and addsall the traced PDG nodes as slice target nodes (S1032). After S1032, theprogram slicing unit 276 a extracts the PDG node, which is the heldslice target node, as the slice (S1033), thereby ending the process.

The above-described process will be exemplified. For example, when a PDGnode ((14) Assignment location.href) of the slicing criteria is set asthe analysis target node in the program dependence graph illustrated inFIG. 16, the program slicing unit 276 a reversely traces the PDG edgeshaving the data dependence relationship with the PDG node (Assignmentlocation.href), once, and holds all the traced PDG nodes ((6) Assignmenturl, (9) Assignment url, (12) Assignment url and (4) Variablelnitializerurl) as new analysis target nodes. In addition, each of the PDG nodes of(6) Assignment url and (9) Assignment url in FIG. 16 further has the PDGedge in the data dependence relationship, the program slicing unit 276 areversely traces the PDG edge and also holds a PDG node of (3)Variablelnitializer d as a new analysis target node. Among the analysistarget nodes held at this time, (6) Assignment url, (9) Assignment urland (12) Assignment url include the PDG edges in the control dependencerelationship, and thus, the program slicing unit 276 a reversely tracesthe PDG edges once, and adds all the traced PDG nodes, that is, the PDGnodes of (5) IfStatement jre[1]==“6” and (8) IfStatement jre[1]==“7” asslice target nodes. Further, the program slicing unit 276 a extracts theheld PDG nodes, that is, (14) Assignment location.href, (6) Assignmenturl, (9) Assignment url, (12) Assignment url, (4) Variablelnitializerurl, (3) Variablelnitializer d, (5) IfStatement jre[1]==“6” and (8)IfStatement jre[1]==“7” as the slices. For example, the program slicingunit 276 a extracts the slice illustrated as reference sign 701a→reference sign 702 a in FIG. 18 based on the PDG node illustrated inFIG. 17.

In addition, for example, when the PDG node ((5) IfStatementjre[1]==“6”) of the slicing criteria is set as the analysis target nodein the program dependence graph illustrated in FIG. 16, the programslicing unit 276 a reversely traces the PDG edges having the datadependence relationship with the PDG node ((5) IfStatement jre[1]==“6”),once, and holds the entire traced PDG node ((2) Variablelnitializer jre)as a new analysis target node. In addition, the PDG node of (2)Variablelnitializer jre further has the PDG edge in the data dependencerelationship, the program slicing unit 276 a reversely traces the PDGedge and also holds a PDG node of (1) Variablelnitializer jre_version asa new analysis target node. Incidentally, there is no PDG edge havingthe control dependence relationship with the PDG node of (1)Variablelnitializer jre_version in this case, and thus, the programslicing unit 276 a extracts (5) IfStatement jre[1]==“6”, (2)Variablelnitializer jre, and (1) Variablelnitializer jre_version as theslices. For example, the program slicing unit 276 a extracts the sliceillustrated as reference sign 1001 a→reference sign 1002 a in FIG. 21based on the PDG node illustrated in FIG. 20.

According to the above-described system, it is possible to analyze thecode that performs the drive-by download attack depending on the clientenvironment, in detail. As a result, for example, it is possible toexhaustively extract the URL which is likely to be the attack URL or thestepping-stone URL in the drive-by download attack from the code withoutdepending on the client environment. In addition, the system can specifythe client environment required for the transfer to the extracted URLwhich is likely to be the attack URL or the stepping-stone URL. As aresult, when an environment-dependent attack is analyzed using theconventional honey pot technology, it is possible to effectivelydetermine any client environment to be set in order to reach the attackURL or the stepping-stone URL. In addition, it is possible to optimize aURL blacklist that needs to be introduced according to clientenvironment of each client by integrating URLs for each clientenvironment.

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Incidentally, the object and the function and the property of the objectspecified by the syntax analysis unit 274 a are not limited to thoserelating to the transfer code or the content acquisition code, but maybe appropriately changed depending on a purpose.

In addition, the statement set as the program dependence graph node inthe program dependence graph among the statements of the JavaScript(registered trademark) code in the program dependence graph constructionunit 275 a is assumed as the variable definition statement, theassignment statement, the function definition statement, the functionexecution statement, the return statement, the conditional branchstatement, the loop statement, the exception handling statement, or thelike, but any addition or change may be made by the administrator of thesystem or the like other than the above-described statements.

Incidentally, the information output as the result of the code analysisby the program analysis unit 273 a may be information other than theURL. For example, when the information on an object and a function and aproperty of the object used in an attack code is known in advance, theprogram analysis unit 273 a may specify the attack code using theinformation and output the various types of information used in thespecified attack code.

In addition, the system is assumed to access the analysis target website12 a using the browser emulator 25 a, but may access the analysis targetwebsite 12 a using a configuration other than the browser emulator 25 a(for example, the actual client environment).

Further, the program slicing unit 276 a is assumed to extract the sliceusing the program dependence graph, but may not use the programdependence graph as long as it is possible to grasp the controldependence relationship and the data dependence relationship of eachcode.

Incidentally, the use of the client environment information is assumedto be specified using the program analysis unit 273 a after theextraction of the URL using the program analysis unit 273 a, but may bechanged not to be specified appropriately by the system administrator.

In addition, the browser emulator 25 a is assumed to use the HTML/CSSparser 253 a as the content parser, but a content parser that interpretsweb content such as a PDF file used in Adobe Acrobat (registeredtrademark) and a SWF file used in Adobe Flash Player (registeredtrademark). Incidentally, when the PDF file is interpreted, JavaScript(registered trademark) is used as an analysis target code, and thescript interpreter 254 a is configured to use a JavaScript (registeredtrademark) interpreter. In addition, when the SWF file is interpreted,ActionScript is used as an analysis target code, and the scriptinterpreter 254 a is configured to use an ActionScript interpreter.

In addition, the program analysis unit 273 a may use a code other thanJavaScript (registered trademark), for example, VBScript as the analysistarget code, and in such a case, the script interpreter 254 a isconfigured to use a VBScript interpreter.

In addition, the program analysis unit 273 a is configured to performthe slice extraction using a conditional branch statement as the slicingcriteria when the URL has been extracted by the slice execution unit 277a and the slice extracted by the program slicing unit 276 a includes theconditional branch statement, but the invention is not limited thereto.For example, the program analysis unit 273 a may perform the sliceextraction using a conditional branch statement as the slicing criteriaregardless of whether the URL has been extracted by the slice executionunit 277 a as long as the slice extracted by the program slicing unit276 a includes the conditional branch statement.

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In addition, it is possible to create and execute a program obtained bywriting the process executed by the browser emulator managers 23 and 23a according to the above-described embodiments in a language that can beexecuted by a computer. In this case, it is possible to obtain the sameeffects as those of the above-described embodiments by causing thecomputer to execute the program. Further, the same processes as those ofthe above-described embodiments may be realized by recording theabove-described program in a computer-readable recording medium andcauses a computer to read the program recorded in the recording medium.Hereinafter, a description will be given regarding an example of thecomputer to execute a control program that realizes the same function asthe browser emulator manager 23.

FIG. 28 is a diagram illustrating a computer to execute an analysisprogram. As illustrated in FIG. 28, a computer 1000 includes, forexample, a memory 1010, a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 1020, a harddisk drive interface 1030, a disk drive interface 1040, a serial portinterface 1050, a video adapter 1060, and a network interface 1070. Therespective parts are connected to each other via a bus 1080.

The memory 1010 includes a ROM (Read Only Memory) 1011 and a RAM (RandomAccess Memory) 1012. The ROM 1011 stores a boot program such as a BIOS(Basic Input Output System), for example. The hard disk drive interface1030 is connected to a hard disk drive 1090. The disk drive interface1040 is connected to a disk drive 1100. A detachable storage medium, forexample, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or the like is inserted intothe disk drive 1100. For example, a mouse 1110 and a keyboard 1120 areconnected to the serial port interface 1050. For example, a display 1130is connected to the video adapter 1060.

Here, the hard disk drive 1090 stores, for example, an OS 1091, anapplication program 1092, a program module 1093, and program data 1094as illustrated in FIG. 28. The search target code information, theaccess log, the URL extracted by the analysis, and the like, which havebeen described in the above-described embodiments, are stored in, forexample, the hard disk drive 1090 or the memory 1010.

In addition, the analysis program is stored in the hard disk drive 1090as the program module in which a command to be executed by the computer1000 is written, for example. To be specific, the program module inwhich each process executed by the browser emulator manager 23 describedin the above-described embodiments is written is stored in the hard diskdrive 1090.

In addition, the data used for information processing according to theanalysis program is stored as the program data in the hard disk drive1090, for example. Further, the CPU 1020 causes the RAM 1012 to read theprogram module 1093 and the program data 1094 stored in the hard diskdrive 1090 if necessary, and executes each procedure described above.

Incidentally, the program module 1093 and the program data 1094according to the analysis program may be stored in a detachable storagemedium, for example, and be read by the CPU 1020 using the disk drive1100 or the like without being limited to the case of being stored inthe hard disk drive 1090. Alternatively, the program module 1093 and theprogram data 1094 according to the control program may be stored inanother computer connected via a network such as a LAN (Local AreaNetwork) or a WAN (Wide Area Network) and read by the CPU 1020 using thenetwork interface 1070.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

1, 1 a, 2, 2 a NETWORK

3, 3 a PACKET TRANSFER DEVICE

12, 12 a ANALYSIS TARGET WEBSITE

23, 23 a BROWSER EMULATOR MANAGER

24, 24 a ANALYSIS INFORMATION DATABASE

25, 25 a BROWSER EMULATOR

26, 26 a HOST SYSTEM

27, 27 a CONTROL UNIT

251, 251 a CLIENT ENVIRONMENT EMULATION UNIT

252, 252 a ACCESS UNIT

253, 253 a HTML/CSS PARSER

254, 254 a SCRIPT INTERPRETER

270 a EXECUTION PATH SEARCH UNIT

271, 271 a URL LIST CREATION UNIT

272, 272 a ACCESS INSTRUCTION UNIT

273, 273 a PROGRAM ANALYSIS UNIT

274, 274 a SYNTAX ANALYSIS UNIT

275, 275 a PROGRAM DEPENDENCE GRAPH CONSTRUCTION UNIT

276, 276 a PROGRAM SLICING UNIT

277, 277 a SLICE EXECUTION UNIT

278, 278 a REGISTRATION PROCESSING UNIT

279, 279 a URL ANALYSIS UNIT

The invention claimed is:
 1. An analysis device that analyzes a codeincluded in web content, the device comprising: processing circuitryconfigured to access, via the Internet, a site that provides the webcontent; search a transfer code to another site from the code byperforming syntax analysis of the code included in the web content andspecify at least any of an object and a function and a property of theobject which are used in the transfer code found as a result of thesearch; extract a code having a dependence relationship with thetransfer code based on at least any of the object and the function andthe property of the object thus specified and store a uniform resourcelocator (URL) of the another site in a memory; and analyze the URL ofthe another site stored in the memory to determine if the another siteis a malicious site, wherein the processing circuitry is furtherconfigured to construct a program dependence graph, which represents adata dependence relationship and a control dependence relationshipbetween nodes, using each statement of the code included in the webcontent as the node when the transfer code is found as a result of thesearch by the processing circuitry, and specify a node corresponding tothe found transfer code using the program dependence graph, andreversely slice the code based on the data dependence relationship inthe program dependence graph using the specified node as a slicingcriteria to extract a code having the dependence relationship with thetransfer code.
 2. The analysis device according to claim 1, wherein theprocessing circuitry is further configured to cause a script interpreterto interpret the extracted code, monitor at least any of values andarguments assigned to the object and the function and the property ofthe object used in the transfer code or a content acquisition codeduring the interpretation, and extract the URL of the another site byexecution of the transfer code.
 3. An analysis method to analyze a codeincluded in web content, the method comprising: accessing, via theInternet, a site that provides the web content; searching a transfercode to another site from the code by performing syntax analysis of thecode included in the web content; specifying at least any of an objectand a function and a property of the object which are used in thetransfer code found as a result of the search; extracting a code havinga dependence relationship with the transfer code based on at least anyof the object and the function and the property of the object thusspecified; storing a uniform resource locator (URL) of the another sitein a memory; and analyzing the URL of the another site stored in thememory to determine if the another site is a malicious site, wherein themethod further includes constructing a program dependence graph, whichrepresents a data dependence relationship and a control dependencerelationship between nodes, using each statement of the code included inthe web content as the node when the transfer code is found as a resultof the search by the processing circuitry, and specifying a nodecorresponding to the found transfer code using the program dependencegraph, and reversely slicing the code based on the data dependencerelationship in the program dependence graph using the specified node asa slicing criteria to extract a code having the dependence relationshipwith the transfer code.
 4. A non-transitory computer readable storagemedium having stored therein an analysis program to analyze a codeincluded in web content, the program causing a computer to execute aprocess comprising: accessing, via the Internet, a site that providesthe web content; searching a transfer code to another site from the codeby performing syntax analysis of the code included in the web content;specifying at least any of an object and a function and a property ofthe object which are used in the transfer code found as a result of thesearch; extracting a code having a dependence relationship with thetransfer code based on at least any of the object and the function andthe property of the object thus specified; storing a uniform resourcelocator (URL) of the another site in a memory; and analyzing the URL ofthe another site stored in the memory to determine if the another siteis a malicious site, wherein the process further includes constructing aprogram dependence graph, which represents a data dependencerelationship and a control dependence relationship between nodes, usingeach statement of the code included in the web content as the node whenthe transfer code is found as a result of the search by the processingcircuitry, and specifying a node corresponding to the found transfercode using the program dependence graph, and reversely slicing the codebased on the data dependence relationship in the program dependencegraph using the specified node as a slicing criteria to extract a codehaving the dependence relationship with the transfer code.
 5. Ananalysis device that analyzes a code included in web content, the devicecomprising: processing circuitry configured to access, via the Internet,a site that provides the web content; construct a program dependencegraph, which represents a data dependence relationship and a controldependence relationship between statements using the respectivestatements of the code as nodes; extract statements relating toreference of variable definition of a slicing criteria by tracing anedge in the data dependence relationship from the slicing criteria inthe program dependence graph using a node representing a transfer codeor a conditional branch statement in the program dependence graph as theslicing criteria, extract a statement relating to a control flow of theextracted statement by tracing an edge representing the controldependence relationship from each of the extracted statements apredetermined number of times or less, and extract a statement havingthe dependence relationship with the slicing criteria as a slice,extract a slice using a node representing the transfer code in theprogram dependence graph as a slicing criteria, extract a slice for eachexecution path by performing syntax analysis of the slice when theextracted slice includes a plurality of the execution paths of the code,cause a script interpreter to interpret each of the extracted slices,monitor at least any of values and arguments assigned to the object andthe function and the property of the object used in the transfer codeduring the interpretation, and extract a URL (Uniform Resource Locator)of a web site accessed by the slice execution and store the extractedURL into a memory, and analyze the URL of the website stored in thememory to determine if the web site is a malicious site.
 6. The analysisdevice according to claim 5, wherein when the program dependence graphincludes the node representing the conditional branch statement, theprocessing circuitry extracts a slice using the node representing theconditional branch statement as the slicing criteria, and the processingcircuitry causes a script interpreter to interpret the extracted slice,monitors at least any of values and arguments assigned to the object andthe function and the property of the object relating to a characterstring operation during the interpretation, and specifies clientenvironment information used in the slice execution.
 7. The analysisdevice according to claim 5, wherein when the program dependence graphincludes the node representing the conditional branch statement in acase where the URL is extracted by the processing circuitry, theprocessing circuitry extracts a slice using the node representing theconditional branch statement in the program dependence graph as theslicing criteria, and causes the script interpreter to interpret theextracted slice, monitors at least any of values and arguments assignedto the object and the function and the property of the object relatingto a character string operation during the interpretation, specifiesclient environment information used in the slice execution, andassociates the extracted URL with the client environment information. 8.An analysis method to analyze a code included in web content, the methodcomprising: accessing, via the Internet, a site that provides the webcontent; constructing a program dependence graph, which represents adata dependence relationship and a control dependence relationshipbetween statements using the respective statements of the code as nodes;extracting statements relating to reference of variable definition of aslicing criteria by tracing an edge in the data dependence relationshipfrom the slicing criteria in the program dependence graph using a noderepresenting a transfer code or a conditional branch statement in theprogram dependence graph as the slicing criteria, extracting a statementrelating to a control flow of the extracted statement by tracing an edgerepresenting the control dependence relationship from each of theextracted statements a predetermined number of times or less, andextracting a statement having the dependence relationship with theslicing criteria as a slice; extracting a slice using a noderepresenting the transfer code in the program dependence graph as aslicing criteria; extracting a slice for each execution path byperforming syntax analysis of the slice when the extracted sliceincludes a plurality of the execution paths of the code; causing ascript interpreter to interpret each of the extracted slices, monitor atleast any of values and arguments assigned to an object and a functionand a property of the object used in the transfer code during theinterpretation, and extract a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of a website accessed by the slice execution and store the extracted URL into amemory; and analyzing the URL of the website stored in the memory todetermine if the website is a malicious site.
 9. A non-transitorycomputer readable storage medium having stored therein an analysisprogram to analyze a code included in web content, the program causing acomputer to execute a process comprising: accessing, via the Internet, asite that provides the web content; constructing a program dependencegraph, which represents a data dependence relationship and a controldependence relationship between statements using the respectivestatements of the code as nodes; extracting statements relating toreference of variable definition of a slicing criteria by tracing anedge in the data dependence relationship from the slicing criteria inthe program dependence graph using a node representing a transfer codeor a conditional branch statement in the program dependence graph as theslicing criteria, extracting a statement relating to a control flow ofthe extracted statement by tracing an edge representing the controldependence relationship from each of the extracted statements apredetermined number of times or less, and extracting a statement havingthe dependence relationship with the slicing criteria as a slice;extracting a slice using a node representing the transfer code in theprogram dependence graph as a slicing criteria; extracting a slice foreach execution path by performing syntax analysis of the slice when theextracted slice includes a plurality of the execution paths of the code;causing a script interpreter to interpret each of the extracted slices,monitor at least any of values and arguments assigned to an object and afunction and a property of the object used in the transfer code duringthe interpretation, and extract a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of aweb site accessed by the slice execution and store the extracted URLinto a memory; and analyzing the URL of the website stored in the memoryto determine if the website is a malicious site.
 10. The analysis deviceaccording to claim 5, wherein the processing circuitry is configured toextract the statement relating to the control flow of the extractedstatement by tracing an edge representing the control dependencerelationship from each of the extracted statements only one time.